Sunday

I made a couple pairs of earrings this weekend. I think I'm slowly entering the denial stage stage where I refuse to acknowledge that my quarter is ending and that I have a million and three things to do. You know when you can see doom coming and you just want to stick your head in the sand and ignore it?

I think that is what I'm doing.

Also, I'm going through a creative slump! It takes me forever to make a pair... and it's not the physical creation, it's the design that takes half an hour :( So the first earring will take an hour, the subsequent twin will take 2 minutes.

My usual workflow:

I queue up a season of Friends/Criminal Minds in VLC on my macbook and set it on my desk, fullscreen. Hit play.

Work work work work look up once in awhile work work

I don't get up until like, five hours later.

(:

I made these yesterday.

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two

and then today:

Usually I make one pair at a time, but this time I ended up making one side of each pair first.

Here are some pictures to dispel the mystery. Am I hurting myself in showing you guys my workflow? LOL ♥ I wonder...

* All of these can be replaced with something else--gold for silver, round bead for a faceted one, any sizes etc. The pearls can be 4mm bicones. You don't even need wire, you can use headpins for everything.

one

cut a strip of wire

two

On my pliers there is the space where there are two flat surfaces. They meet every time I squeeze the handle. I use that section to flatten the ends of wires so that I can slip a bead on and it won't fall off.

Just like this !

three

Slip on a pearl bead and finish the loop.

four

Repeat with the other 5 small beads. You can use the same strip of wire.

Set them aside.

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Now take that same piece of wire. Make a loop.

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Slip on your round bead.

Then your bead cap.

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Slip on your pearls and make sure to spread them out.

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Finally, slip on your rose coin.

Make a loop at the end. You can either make a standard loop, or you can make a wrapped look which goes like this: